January 01 | Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83 |
January 01 | Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81 |
January 02 | Edmond Jabs, writer, dies |
January 02 | Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78 |
January 04 | Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78 |
January 04 | Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94 |
January 04 | Leo N Wright, US saxophonist (I Left My Heart in SF), dies at 57 |
January 05 | John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82 |
January 05 | Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80 |
January 05 | Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68 |
January 06 | Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64 |
January 07 | Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64 |
January 08 | Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30 |
January 10 | Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62 |
January 11 | Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in NY at 49 |
January 12 | Keye Luke, actor (Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86 |
January 12 | Vasco Pratolini, Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77 |
January 14 | Sallah Kharaf, [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated |
January 17 | Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies |
January 18 | Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102 |
January 18 | Lillian Bond, actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83 |
January 18 | Nita Krebs, actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85 |
January 19 | Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87 |
January 19 | Glenn Langan, actor (Big Chase, Jungle Heat, Rapture), dies at 73 |
January 19 | John Russell, actor/writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70 |
January 20 | Bill Riordon, US tennis promotor (Jimmy Connors), dies |
January 20 | Louis Seigner, actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87 |
January 21 | Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies |
January 21 | Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87 |
January 21 | Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Mo)/US civil-rights leader, dies at 74 |
January 24 | George Gobel, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 71 |
January 24 | Lawrence Lott, actor (Real Men, Phila Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40 |
January 25 | Stanley Brock, actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59 |
January 26 | Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46 |
January 28 | Dale Long, hit HRs in 8 consecutive games, dies at 66 |
January 29 | Jan Od, Dutch pianist/director Sweelinck Conservatory, dies |
January 29 | Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies |
January 30 | John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83 |
February 01 | Carol Dempster, actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89 |
February 01 | H J van Ommeren-Averink, Dutch MP (CPN), dies |
February 01 | James G MacDonald, cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84 |
February 01 | Phil Watson, NHL coach (NY Rangers), dies |
February 03 | Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69 |
February 04 | Bob Leslie, actor (Cinderella, Mako: Jaws of Death), dies at 64 |
February 05 | Dean Jagger, US actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide, Oscar), dies at about 87 |
February 05 | Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies at 83 |
February 06 | Danny Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer), dies of a heart attack at 79 |
February 06 | Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies |
February 07 | Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75 |
February 07 | Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87 |
February 08 | Miran Bux, cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55), dies at 47 |
February 11 | Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90 |
February 12 | Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88 |
February 12 | Robert Wagner, mayor (NYC-D-1954-65), dies |
February 13 | Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of heart attack at 67 |
February 13 | Eddie Bartell, actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83 |
February 14 | Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90 |
February 14 | John A McCone, Head of CIA (1961-65), dies |
February 15 | Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack |
February 15 | Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78 |
February 16 | Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies |
February 17 | Enrique Bermudez, commandant (Contra), dies |
February 19 | Peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50 |
February 21 | Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71 |
February 21 | Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47 |
February 24 | George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71 |
February 24 | Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74 |
February 24 | Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68 |
February 24 | Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64 |
February 27 | Artie Mitchell, XXX producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45 |
February 27 | H J of Royen, manager Dutch (Concertgebouw Orch), dies at 52 |
February 27 | Robert-Jan Akkerman, Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered |
February 28 | Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies |
March 01 | Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81 |
March 01 | Katharine Blake, actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62 |
March 01 | Scott Huston, composer, dies at 74 |
March 02 | Clark Mollenhoff, US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies |
March 02 | Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies |
March 02 | James "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro baseball league great, dies at 87 |
March 02 | Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62 |
March 03 | Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia |
March 03 | Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84 |
March 04 | Vance Colvig, actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur), dies at 72 |
March 05 | August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92 |
March 05 | Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109 |
March 12 | Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92 |
March 13 | Cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies at 65 |
March 13 | Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist, dies |
March 14 | Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40 |
March 14 | Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68 |
March 14 | Jerome "Doc" Pomus, lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65 |
March 14 | Robert Maroff, dies at 57 |
March 15 | Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84 |
March 15 | Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93 |
March 16 | 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash |
March 16 | Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85 |
March 16 | Wim van den Brink, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien), dies |
March 18 | Jack McCoy, Radio/TV personality, dies at 72 |
March 18 | Vilma Banky, actress (Eagle, Son of Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93 |
March 19 | John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies |
March 19 | Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37 |
March 19 | Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86 |
March 20 | Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5 |
March 21 | Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies |
March 21 | Rajiv Gandhi, former PM of India, killed by bomb at 46 |
March 22 | Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73 |
March 23 | Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68 |
March 23 | Fons Jansen, Dutch night club performer, dies at 65 |
March 23 | Mona Maris, actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88 |
March 25 | Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78 |
March 25 | Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96 |
March 26 | Frans Dohmen, union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 |
March 27 | Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer |
March 27 | Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91 |
March 27 | Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77 |
March 27 | Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50 |
March 28 | Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies at 85 |
March 29 | Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40 |
March 29 | Matt Bennett, actor (Hickey & Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52 |
March 30 | Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies |
March 31 | John Carter, US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore), dies |
April 01 | Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96 |
April 01 | Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies |
April 01 | Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95 |
April 03 | Graham Greene, Brit writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86 |
April 04 | John Heinz, (Sen-R-Pa), dies in a plane crash, dies at 52 |
April 04 | Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies |
April 04 | Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79 |
April 05 | John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash at 65 |
April 05 | Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, USN/astro (STS 33), dies at 43 |
April 06 | Bill Ponsford, cricketer (Test avg 48 22, 1st-class avg 65 18), dies |
April 09 | Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73 |
April 10 | Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35 |
April 10 | Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer |
April 11 | Tom Rosqui, dies at 62 |
April 12 | James Schuyler, US poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies |
April 15 | Marjorie Warfield, dies at 88 |
April 15 | Martin Ashe, dies |
April 16 | David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83 |
April 17 | Jack Yellen, US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97 |
April 20 | Don[ald] Siegel, US director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78 |
April 20 | Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician, dies |
April 20 | Sean O'Faolain, [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91 |
April 20 | Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44 |
April 20 | Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, PM of Mongolia (1952-74), dies |
April 21 | Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74 |
April 21 | Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81 |
April 23 | Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies |
April 24 | J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies |
April 25 | Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans), dies at 66 |
April 25 | Theo Laseroms, [Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies |
April 26 | Carmine Coppola, composer/father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies |
April 26 | Emily McLaughlin, US actress (Jessie-General Hospital), dies at 61 |
April 27 | Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Calif Gold Rush), dies at 74 |
April 27 | Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies |
April 28 | Floyd B McKissick, US founder (CORE), dies |
April 28 | Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74 |
April 29 | Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies |
April 30 | George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91 |
April 30 | Michael G Hagerty, actor (Overboard), dies at 39 |
May 01 | Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies |
May 02 | Hal Bell, dies at 65 |
May 02 | Leib Lensky, dies at 82 |
May 03 | Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies |
May 03 | Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57 |
May 03 | Margaret Tallichet, actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies |
May 04 | Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54 |
May 05 | William De Acutis, dies at 33 |
May 06 | Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies |
May 06 | Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies |
May 06 | Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62 |
May 06 | Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87 |
May 08 | Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84 |
May 08 | Lloyd Ford, stuntman, dies at 79 |
May 08 | Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72 |
May 09 | James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies |
May 09 | Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72 |
May 09 | Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies |
May 10 | Armand HF Boni, [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies |
May 11 | Filip J Field, dies at 67 |
May 11 | Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies |
May 13 | Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83 |
May 14 | Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies |
May 14 | Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies |
May 14 | Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide |
May 14 | John Edward Craven, dies |
May 14 | Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86), dies |
May 15 | Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84 |
May 15 | Freddie Paris, dies |
May 15 | Reno Brown, dies |
May 15 | Ronald Lacey, actor (Raiders of Lost Ark, Next Victim), dies at 55 |
May 16 | Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies |
May 18 | Edwina Booth, actress (Trader Horn), dies of heart failure at 86 |
May 19 | Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies |
May 19 | Rini Otte, Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland), dies at 74 |
May 20 | Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65 |
May 21 | Bobby Dale, dies at 92 |
May 21 | Jean Van Joutte, PM of Belgium (1952-54), dies |
May 21 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46 |
May 22 | Lino Brocka, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51 |
May 23 | Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies |
May 23 | Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies |
May 23 | William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30 |
May 24 | Gene Clark, folk-rocker (Byrds-Tambourine Man), dies at 49 |
May 25 | Dorothy Davis Bostwick, entertainer, dies |
May 26 | Tom Cassidy, anchor (CNN), dies of AIDs at 41 |
May 26 | Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50 |
May 27 | Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88 |
May 28 | Brigitte B Fischer, writer, dies |
May 28 | Ethel Lois Payne, journalist (Chic Defender), dies at 79 |
May 29 | Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77 |
May 30 | Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74 |
May 31 | Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies |
May 31 | H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke |
June -- | Jiang Quing, widow of Mao Zedong, commits suicide |
June 01 | David Ruffin, rock vocalist (Temptations), dies of drug overdose at 50 |
June 03 | Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62 |
June 03 | Eva La Gailliene, Brit/US actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92 |
June 03 | Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan |
June 03 | Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33 |
June 06 | Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60 |
June 06 | Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64 |
June 06 | Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77 |
June 07 | Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies |
June 08 | Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies |
June 08 | Heidi Brhl, German actress (Mdels vom Immenhof), dies at 49 |
June 08 | Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43 |
June 09 | Bob Irwin, Comedian, dies of Alzheimer's related illness at 88 |
June 09 | Charles Loloma, painter/sculptor, dies |
June 09 | Claudio Arrau, Chilian/US pianist/composer, dies at 88 |
June 09 | Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77 |
June 10 | Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies |
June 11 | Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies |
June 14 | Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84 |
June 14 | Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83 |
June 16 | Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies |
June 18 | Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69 |
June 19 | Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], US actress (Shane), dies |
June 22 | Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82 |
June 22 | Kevin O'Connor, actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at 56 |
June 23 | Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66 |
June 23 | Bill Buysman, Dutch guitarist/singer (Kilima Hawaiians), dies |
June 24 | Martin Rosenblatt, actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, NY Stories), dies at 74 |
June 24 | Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter, dies at 91 |
June 26 | Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II), dies at 80 |
June 26 | Paul Andor, actor (Mad Lover, Enemy of Women), dies |
June 27 | Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered |
June 27 | Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister), dies |
June 28 | Ernie McCormick, cricketer (12 Tests for Australia), dies |
June 28 | Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies |
July 01 | Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies |
July 01 | Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven), dies of cancer at 54 |
July 02 | Lee Remick, actress (Days of Wine & Roses), dies of cancer at 55 |
July 03 | Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77 |
July 05 | Howard Nemerow, US poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies |
July 05 | Mildred Dunnock, dies at 87 |
July 06 | Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy), dies at 78 |
July 08 | James Franciscus, actor (Mr Novak), dies at of emphysema 57 |
July 08 | Lotte Palfi Andor, actress (Lovesick, All the Jazz), dies |
July 10 | Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48 |
July 11 | Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered |
July 11 | James McCallion, actor (PT 109, Big Combo), dies at 72 |
July 13 | Cor Ria Leeman, Flemish (youth)writer, dies |
July 14 | Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies |
July 14 | Rita Marchal, actress (Good During Only During), dies |
July 15 | Bert Convy, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw), dies at 57 |
July 16 | Cornelis Z Forster, [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies |
July 16 | Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81 |
July 16 | Frank Rizzo, (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), dies of a heart attack at 70 |
July 16 | Robert Motherwell, US painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76 |
July 18 | Andr Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63 |
July 18 | Harold Butler, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1947-48, 12 wkts), dies |
July 20 | Henri Marius Rellys, dies at 86 |
July 21 | Theodore Wilson, dies at 47 |
July 23 | Billie Carlyle |
July 24 | Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51), dies |
July 24 | Isaac B Singer, Polish/US writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87 |
July 24 | Karl Ellis, dies at 41 |
July 25 | Brian Haines, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70 |
July 25 | Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies |
July 25 | Toni Gerry, actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61 |
July 27 | Carol Gillies, actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50 |
July 28 | Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled to Netherlands, dies at 45 |
July 30 | Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68 |
July 30 | William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando), dies at 60 |
August 01 | Stuart Wilson, actor (Lethal Weapon 3), dies at 87 |
August 02 | Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen |
August 02 | Helen Page Camp, |
August 04 | Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80 |
August 05 | Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82 |
August 05 | Soichiro Hondo, CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84 |
August 06 | Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68 |
August 06 | Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris |
August 07 | Billy James, comedian/singer (Women at Play, Lusty Business), dies |
August 07 | Shapur Bahktiar, PM of Iran (1979), assassinated |
August 07 | Shotzie, Cincinnati Red dog mascot, dies at 9 |
August 08 | Brad Davis, actor (Sybil, Midnight Express), dies of AIDS at 41 |
August 08 | James B Irwin, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15), dies at 61 |
August 08 | John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies |
August 08 | Magdalena G Schenk, historical (Vorstenhuizen of our time), dies |
August 09 | Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies |
August 10 | Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies |
August 11 | Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89 |
August 12 | Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice), dies |
August 12 | William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies |
August 13 | Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65 |
August 14 | Douglas Kiker, newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61 |
August 15 | Marietta Tree, ambassador (UN Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74 |
August 16 | Frederic Mars, Spanish sculptor, dies |
August 16 | Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43 |
August 16 | Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16 |
August 16 | Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer |
August 17 | Don Dubbins, actor (Enchanted Island, DI), dies at 63 |
August 17 | Leo Geerts, [Marcel van der Linden], Belgian writer/critic, dies |
August 17 | Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76 |
August 18 | Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies |
August 20 | Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86 |
August 20 | Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90 |
August 21 | Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101 |
August 21 | Richard Wilson, producer/writer/actor (Pay or Die), dies at 75 |
August 21 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies |
August 22 | Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide |
August 22 | Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 67 |
August 23 | Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93 |
August 24 | Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99 |
August 24 | Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indon writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86 |
August 24 | Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87 |
August 24 | Mike Sokoll, cowboy actor, dies at 97 |
August 25 | Don Nute, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56 |
August 25 | Niven Busch, US writer (Duel in the Sun), dies |
August 25 | Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide |
August 27 | Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies |
August 27 | Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], Brit singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies |
August 28 | Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies |
August 28 | Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies |
August 29 | Dallas Adams, British painter/writer/actor (Terror from Within), dies |
August 29 | Daniel Ocko, dies of respiratory condition at 78 |
August 29 | Dixie Dunbar, [Charlotte King], dies of heart attack at 72 |
August 29 | Kathryn Cravens, news correspondent, dies at 92 |
August 29 | Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia, dies |
August 30 | Alan Wheatley, |
August 30 | Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies |
August 30 | Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies |
August 31 | Leigh Watson, US aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93 |
September 01 | Elise Hoomans, actress/director (Medea/Virginia Woolf?, dies) |
September 01 | Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30 |
September 01 | Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies |
September 02 | Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies |
September 02 | Concetto Lo Bello, Italian intl soccer judge, dies |
September 03 | Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94 |
September 03 | Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist, dies |
September 04 | Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77 |
September 04 | Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), dies at 58 in a car |
September 04 | Margaret Ramsay, vocalist, dies |
September 04 | Thomas Tryon, actor (Cardinal)/writer (Other), dies at 65 |
September 07 | Archie N Menzies, playwright/composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87 |
September 07 | Ben Piazza, actor (Consenting Adults), dies of cancer at 58 |
September 07 | John Crosby, US columnist/detective writer dies at 79 |
September 07 | John Lawrence, examined effect of neutron radiation on fabric, dies |
September 08 | Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer |
September 08 | Brad Davis, US, actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41 |
September 08 | Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies |
September 08 | Jo Budie, Dutch orch leader (KRO), dies |
September 09 | Edwin M McMillan, US, chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies |
September 09 | John Lawrence, doctor, dies |
September 09 | Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies |
September 09 | Paul Michael Lombardi, actor, dies of AIDS at 31 |
September 10 | Sarah Sally Lawrence, entertainer, dies at 61 |
September 10 | Yves Montand, actor (Lets Make Love, Z), dies at 70 |
September 12 | ?, Japanese interpreter of Rushdies "Satanic Verses", murdered |
September 12 | Jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies |
September 12 | Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93 |
September 13 | Ferry Barendse, trumpeter/composer/arranger (Ramblers), dies |
September 13 | Joe Pasternak, producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73 |
September 14 | Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer |
September 15 | Allan Sobek, dancer, dies |
September 15 | Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83 |
September 15 | John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87 |
September 16 | Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47 |
September 21 | Angelo "Little Moe" Rossitto, dwarf actor (Carousel), dies at 83 |
September 21 | Angelo Rossitto, dwarf known as "Little Moe"/actor (Dark), dies at 83 |
September 21 | JA Mommersteeg, Dutch state sect of Defense (KVP), dies |
September 22 | Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies |
September 22 | Reynold Abel Dorris, (Broken Cord), dies at 23 in car crash |
September 23 | Chuck Vincent, Adult film director, dies of heart attack at 51 |
September 23 | Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer & Eddie), dies |
September 24 | Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73 |
September 24 | Theodore Geisel, author (Dr Seuss), dies of cancer at 87 |
September 25 | Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77 |
September 25 | Max Koot, royal photographer, dies |
September 27 | Huib Orizand, Dutch actor (Paul Vlanderen), dies |
September 27 | Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curaao), dies |
September 27 | Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill/wife of Charles, dies at 66 |
September 28 | Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, dies of pneumonia at 65 |
September 29 | Gijsbert Perlee, Amsterdam's organ builder/grinder (Arabian), dies |
September 29 | Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered |
September 29 | Zapata Jaw, [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese musician, dies |
September 30 | Nancy Welford, entertainer, dies at 87 |
October -- | Roger Lafontant, Haitian minister of Interior, assassinated |
October 01 | Jan van Tongeren, painter, dies |
October 02 | Dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies |
October 02 | Jan H Christianse, political chairman (CDA), dies |
October 03 | Max Cantor, journalist, dies |
October 04 | Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83 |
October 06 | Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66 |
October 06 | Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13] |
October 07 | Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86 |
October 08 | Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75 |
October 09 | Roy Black, German singer/actor (Kinderarzt Dr Froehlich), dies |
October 09 | Thalmus Rasulala, actor (Blacula), dies of heart attack at 51 |
October 10 | Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68 |
October 10 | Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34 |
October 12 | Aline MacMahon, US actress (Backdoor to Heaven), dies at 92 |
October 12 | Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town), dies at 89 |
October 12 | Sheila Florance, Australian actress (Cactus), dies of cancer at 75 |
October 13 | Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies |
October 13 | Donald Houston, actor (Battle Hell, Study in Terror), dies at 67 |
October 15 | Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies |
October 16 | Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72 |
October 16 | Tonny Huurdeman, singer/actress (Frills), dies |
October 17 | J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84 |
October 17 | Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, bicylist (7x Tour de France), dies |
October 17 | Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer, dies of liver disease at 72 |
October 22 | Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies |
October 23 | Lance Baker, dies at 31 |
October 24 | Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70 |
October 24 | Leon Clements, journalist (Interlijnen), dies at 43 |
October 25 | Bill Graham, rock concert promoter (Filmore, Dylan), dies at 60 |
October 25 | Khigh Dhiegh, actor (Forbidden Nights), dies of heat failure at 75 |
October 26 | Bill Graham, rock promoter, dies at 60 |
October 26 | Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella |
October 27 | Andrzei Panufkin, Pol/Brit conductor/composer (Sinfonia Sacra), dies |
October 27 | Pyke F C Koch, realistic painter, dies |
October 28 | Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies |
October 28 | G L Vitto entertainer, dies at 69 |
October 28 | John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51 |
October 28 | Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37 |
October 28 | Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist/composer, dies at 78 |
October 29 | Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60 |
October 29 | Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies |
October 29 | Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies |
October 29 | Mario Scelba, PM of Italia (1954-55), dies |
October 30 | Johan Mekkink, painter, dies |
October 30 | Ken Hardin, producer, dies at 62 |
October 30 | William Shea, (Shea Stadium namesake), dies at 84 |
October 31 | Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million), dies of cancer at 97 |
October 31 | James Marshall, US children's book writer/illustrator, dies at 50 |
October 31 | Johan Schmitz, actor (Gysbregt van Aemstel/Soldat van Orange), dies |
October 31 | Joseph Papp, Broadway producer (Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70 |
November 01 | Joseph Papp, US theater producer (Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70 |
November 02 | Fran Stevens, singer, dies of cancer in Bronx NY at 72 |
November 02 | Irwin Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75 |
November 05 | Fred MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83 |
November 05 | Robert Maxwell, Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68 |
November 06 | Andr Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist/conductor, dies at 64 |
November 06 | Gene Tierney, actress (Laura, Whirlpool), dies of emphysema at 70 |
November 07 | Gene Tierney, US actress (Laura/Heaven can wait), dies at 70 |
November 08 | Christine Felsmann, dies |
November 08 | Frances Faye, singer/actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes |
November 08 | John Kirckpatrick, US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies |
November 08 | Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45 |
November 09 | Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies |
November 09 | Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70 |
November 10 | Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Ital Colonies (1931-38), dies |
November 10 | Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies |
November 10 | Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Capt Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73 |
November 12 | Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack |
November 12 | Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60 |
November 12 | Howard Brunner, dies of AIDS at 51 |
November 12 | Paul E "Cardinal" Leger, cardinal/archbishop of Montreal, dies at 87 |
November 13 | Ad Kosto, Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb |
November 13 | Cyril Poitier, actor (Uptown Saturday Night), dies of cancer at 80 |
November 13 | Hanson Baldwin, US military historian, dies at 88 |
November 14 | Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63 |
November 16 | Ralph Marrero, actor (Babe, Johnny Suede), dies in car accident at 33 |
November 17 | John Blatnik, (Rep-Minn, 1947-75), dies at 80 |
November 17 | Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, (Jerry Van Dyke's daughter), suicide at 33 |
November 17 | Paul Reid Roman, actor (Aviator, Blue Knight), dies of cancer at 55 |
November 18 | Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78 |
November 19 | Reggie Nalder, actor (Mark of Devil), dies of bone cancer at 80 |
November 20 | Gina Petrushka, actress (Exorcist, Sybil), dies |
November 21 | Daniel Mann, US director (Rose tattoo), dies of heart failure at 79 |
November 21 | David "Sonny" Werblin, AFL owner (NY Jets), dies at 81 |
November 21 | Prior Jones, West Indian cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1948-52), dies |
November 21 | Sonny Werblin, NY sports impresario, dies at 81 |
November 22 | Jac de Jong, Dutch MP/composer/businessman (Nedac-Sorbo), dies |
November 23 | Ken Uehara, actor (Honolulu-Tokyo), dies of heart failure at 82 |
November 23 | Klaus Kinski, actor (Android, Little Drummer Girl), dies at 65 |
November 24 | Anton Furst, production designer (Batman), dies at 47 |
November 24 | Eric Carr, drummer (Kiss-Beth), dies of cancer at 41 |
November 24 | Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen), dies of AIDS at 45 |
November 25 | Bill Graham, rock promoter, dies |
November 25 | Eleanor Audley, voice (Wicked Stepmother-Cinderella), dies at 86 |
November 26 | Bob Johnson, US hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60 |
November 26 | Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies), dies of heart attack at 70 |
November 26 | Franois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila |
November 29 | Frank Yerby, US writer (Health Card, The Dahomean), dies at 75 |
November 29 | Ralph Bellamy, actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday), dies at 87 |
November 30 | P G Z (Zin) Harris, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ 1962-65), dies |
December 01 | Byron Webster, actor (That Man Bolt), dies of AIDS at 58 |
December 01 | George Joseph Stigler, US economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80 |
December 03 | Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies |
December 03 | Casey Walters, actor (True Story of Lynn Stuart), after a stroke at 75 |
December 05 | Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies |
December 05 | Jill Browne, dies at 54 |
December 05 | Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday |
December 06 | Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 |
December 06 | Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies |
December 08 | Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies |
December 08 | Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23 |
December 10 | Berenice Abbott, US photographer, dies at 93 |
December 11 | Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies |
December 11 | Daniel Simon Scott, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 71 |
December 11 | Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44 |
December 11 | Robert Q Lewis, US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at 70 |
December 12 | Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93 |
December 12 | Ken Keltner, US baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75 |
December 12 | Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies |
December 13 | Andr Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies at 82 |
December 14 | John Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies |
December 14 | Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83 |
December 15 | Horatio Luro, US horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 |
December 15 | Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55 |
December 16 | Fred D Scott, actor (2 Gun Troubador), dies |
December 17 | John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80 |
December 18 | June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73 |
December 19 | Ernest K Gann, US adventure novelist, dies at 81 |
December 19 | Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70 |
December 20 | Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies |
December 20 | Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives & Grows), dies |
December 20 | Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86 |
December 20 | Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88 |
December 20 | Stephen Birnbaum, US tourism writer, dies at 54 |
December 20 | Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60 |
December 20 | Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67 |
December 22 | Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91 |
December 23 | Byron Q Griffith, producer/actor, dies at 73 |
December 24 | Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46 |
December 25 | Curt Bois, actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90 |
December 25 | Mahmood Hussain, cricketer (27 Tests for Pakistan, 68 wickets), dies |
December 25 | Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et Csar), dies at 87 |
December 25 | Sal Provenza, entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45 |
December 26 | Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise), dies at 70 |
December 26 | Sam Cresson, dies at 73 |
December 27 | Edward M Love, choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43 |
December 27 | John Morgan Evans, actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49 |
December 27 | W Hudson, US "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies |
December 28 | Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39 |
December 28 | Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure |
December 29 | Julia McCarthy, dies of cancer at 64 |